Southfield Farm, Rodden, Frome, BA11 5LB

Southfield Farm is a detached house in Rodden, Frome, Frome (BA11 5LB). It has a recorded floor area of 463 m² (around 4984 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (January 2016) shows an E (score 44), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from January 2016, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

At 463 m² the property is well over the postcode median (149 m² across 9 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 89% of similar EPCs). Across 1996–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 8.4% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £1,057,000 is 33.1% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£159/sq ft) was about 54.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 4 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Sold March 2021 for £794,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.